Sentences with phrase «ban nuclear weapons»

Wouldn't it be a more rational application of the precautionary principal to ban nuclear weapons?

Most of the world's countries have agreed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, but with the nuclear powers boycotting it, will it make a difference?

But the unique character of the ongoing movement to ban nuclear weapons is not the ideas by which it is animated, but the identity of its creators.

The ongoing campaign to ban nuclear weapons uses similar language.

• The concept of s» yag l'Torah, making «a fence for the Torah» — that is, establishing practices that keep us from violating Torah teachings even unwittingly or under duress — can be taken as a basis for banning nuclear weapons, the dangers of which threaten the very fabric of creation.

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans nuclear weapons in space.

Not exact matches

ICAN, which is a coalition of smaller organizations, has long campaigned for a treaty that would ban the use of nuclear weapons.

The US, which adheres to a policy of nuclear deterrence, has criticized the nuclear - weapons ban, but Mattis» letter is seen as an unusual step in bilateral relations, particularly between the US and Sweden.

«Nuclear weapons must be banned,» Francis said, quoting a document issued by Pope John XXIII during the Cold War and adding that there is «no denying that the conflagration could be started by some chance and unforeseen circumstance.»

As part of his «State of the World» address, Pope Francis asked world leaders to stand up for more conversations toward peace in Korea and an enforced ban on nuclear weapons.

The ban treaty, if it is adopted, will most likely be made up of a relatively short text declaring the use, possession, and transfer of nuclear weapons unlawful.

Proponents of a ban argue that, not only would the use of nuclear weapons contravene the spirit of the general principles of the laws of war, the humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear war would not be contained by national borders.

Democrats pounced: «Harry Wilson's willingness to revisit New York's ban on investing with Iran — a country on a quest to «wipe Israel off the map,» obtain nuclear weapons, and threaten the United States — is naive, at best, or callous, at worst,» said Jacobs.

When the next Labour government attends the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York, it will be supporting a nuclear weapons convention or ban, similar to those for chemical or biological weapons?

I oppose the replacement of Trident and support a global ban on nuclear weapons.

I support a global ban on such weapons as part of our commitment to nuclear disarmament, as was successful with other weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

In asserting that the explosions on 11 and 13 May provide «enough data» to continue the country's nuclear weapons program without further testing, the two government experts hope to free up the hands of politicians who want India to join the 149 countries that have agreed to the ban.

Multiple elements of the agreement are innovative and unprecedented, the authors note, including the 24 - day cap on any delay to access for inspection of suspected clandestine activities, and the explicit ban on nuclear weapons R&D rather than on their manufacture only.

The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

After the ban, space - based surveillance became a crucial component of the Cold War, with satellites serving as one part of elaborate early - warning systems on alert for the deployment or launch of ground - based nuclear weapons.

It even tested nuclear bombs in space before orbital weapons of mass destruction were banned through the United Nations» Outer Space Treaty of 1967.

A complete ban on nuclear testing is a major part of the US policy to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

Now that the global nuclear test ban negotiations in Geneva are getting down to serious business and a ban could be achieved by March 1995, it looks increasingly likely that Britain's nuclear weapons designers will never be able to test their weapons again.

For several years now the weapons labs in the US have been preparing for a ban on nuclear testing.

This pulse stopped with the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground tests of nuclear weapons, and the unstable carbon - 14 isotopes have steadily decayed.

He negotiated the Limited Test Ban Treaty with the Soviets which he was unable to sign because Francis Gary Powers was shot down and the Soviets grandstanded for several months before getting to the banning of atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.

If the problem is nuclear weapons, beyond supporting the new nuclear ban treaty, what can the world do to eliminate nuclear weapons everywhere, starting with these actually existing weapons?

The objective being to not end up in an verification deadlock a la nuclear weapons test bans.

However, the process that led to the nuclear ban treaty framed the conversation around the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.

As AI researchers, the signatories compare themselves to chemists, biologists, and physicists who had «no interest in building chemical or biological weapons» and therefore supported the treaties banning chemical and biological weapons, as well as space - based nuclear weapons and blinding laser weapons.

First, the nuclear ban process demonstrated that it is much easier to prohibit weapons before they are used.

On 11 November, six Nobel Peace laureates attending a high - level symposium on nuclear disarmament at the Vatican provided His Holiness Pope Francis with a two - page statement that includes a call to ban fully autonomous weapons before they appear on the battlefield.

A Melbourne GP with a strong interest in public health, she has just returned from 10 days in New York at the UN, as a civil society participant at negotiations between 120 - plus countries for an historic nuclear weapons ban treaty which is expected to be concluded on July 7.